America's Favorite Pastime

Take yourself out to the ballpark with these novels and nonfiction books about baseball!

Updated April 30, 2024
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The tao of the backup catcher : playing baseball for the love of the game
Brown, Tim
Paper Book
This fascinating book "reminds us of the beauty of baseball" and chronicles the unsung men of baseball who serve the job, the hardships they face, and their love for a game that would not always love them back―told partly through the experiences of an MLB veteran. (Jim Abott, former major...
796.357 Brown, Tim 2023
Baseball cop : the dark side of America's national pastime
Dominguez, Eddie
Ebook
Exposing trafficking, theft, fraud, and gambling in the major leagues, a founding member of the MLB's Department of Investigations reveals a news-breaking true story of power and corruption. In the wake of 2005's sometimes contentious, sometimes comical congressional hearings on...
796.357 Dominguez 2018
Baseball field guide : an in-depth illustrated guide to the complete rules of baseball
Formosa, Dan
Paper Book
Admit it: Even if you're a die-hard fan of our national pastime, sometimes an umpire's call can be baffling. And for newer fans, Major League Baseball's nuanced rules-developed and revised over many decades-can be downright perplexing. Now updated throughout with the latest changes,...
796.357 Formosa 2023
Calico Joe
Grisham, John.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From America's favorite storyteller comes a moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, hailed as "an enjoyable, heartwarming read that's not just for baseball fans" (USA Today). "Grisham knocks it out of the park."--...
Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game
Lewis, Michael
Paper Book
Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball...

796.357 Lewis 2003

The natural
Malamud, Bernard.
Paper Book
Considered by many to be the greatest baseball novel ever written, this classic morality tale features one of the most memorable characters in all of literature, Roy Hobbs -- a talented athlete whose promising career is derailed by a youthful indiscretion. When Roy makes a comeback as an aging...
The cactus league
Nemens, Emily
Paper Book
Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR and Lit Hub. A Los Angeles Times Bestseller. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "In The Cactus League [Emily Nemens] provides her readers with what amounts to a miniature, self-enclosed world that is...
Why we love baseball : a history in 50 moments
Posnanski, Joe
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES bestseller Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year National Sports Media Association Sports Book of the Year  An NPR "Book of the Day" #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski is...
796.357 Posnanski 2023

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